“Goldman Sachs was paid exorbitant fees for selling the bonds,” one lawyer who has followed the case told me. “The prosecutors, if they do their job, will seek to claw back the commissions.”

It is widely believed that Leissner financed the launch of his wife’s eponymous fashion line. As Fashionista noted in 2014, “Unlike other brands that come into the designer market, Simmons has an unusually well-funded infrastructure.”

Kimora’s fashion line — sold online and at a boutique in Beverly Hills, Calif., with tops going for $550 — can’t be profitable, no matter how beautiful her designs are, retail experts told me.
“She’s off the map. She’s not in any department stores,” one said. And Leissner might not continue to subsidize the operation.

Thanks for following this story, Snitch. If we read between the lines, someone is trying to tell us Kimora might have been allegedly laundering money for her husband...Sidenote: Lots of hair care, fashion, and makeup lines have been founded with questionable money. (Allegedly that couple who sold the simple leather bags, the makeup lines with the same name as an R&B singer, and the fashion line founded by the Venezuelan society lady.)